World Cup death sparks 'heartless' response

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FIFA has confirmed the decease of a migrant idiosyncratic astatine the edifice utilized by Saudi Arabia during the radical stages astatine the World Cup successful Qatar.

"FIFA is profoundly saddened by this calamity and our thoughts and sympathies are with the worker's family," a spokesperson for the satellite shot governing assemblage told CNN successful a statement.

"As soon arsenic FIFA was made alert of the accident, we contacted the section authorities to petition much details.

"FIFA volition beryllium successful a presumption to remark further erstwhile the applicable processes successful narration to the worker's passing person been completed."

It's unclear what the idiosyncratic was doing oregon the circumstances surrounding the person's death.

Sealine Beach edifice was the designated FIFA grooming basal for Saudi Arabia earlier the squad was eliminated successful the radical stages of the tournament.

In a connection to CNN, Qatar's Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) said: "Due to the incidental referred to having taken spot connected spot not nether the jurisdiction of the SC, and the deceased moving arsenic a contractor not nether the remit of the SC, this substance is being handled by the applicable authorities authorities.

"The SC is pursuing up with the aforesaid applicable authorities to guarantee we are updated with developments pertaining to the probe connected a regular ground and has established interaction with the household of the deceased to guarantee applicable accusation is conveyed," the SC added.

A Qatari authorities authoritative confirmed to CNN that the incidental was being investigated by authorities.

"If the probe concludes that information protocols were not followed, the institution volition beryllium taxable to ineligible enactment and terrible fiscal penalties," the authoritative said.

Sparking further controversy, Qatar 2022 World Cup main enforcement Nasser Al Khater, told a Reuters newsman that "death is simply a earthy portion of life" successful effect to a question astir the latest migrant idiosyncratic death, but helium did not code the circumstances astir this incident.

"We're successful the mediate of a World Cup. And we person a palmy World Cup. And this is thing you privation to speech astir close now?" Al Khater said.

"I mean, decease is simply a earthy portion of life, whether it's astatine work, whether it's successful your sleep. Of course, a idiosyncratic died. Our condolences spell to his family. However, I mean, it is unusual that this is thing you privation to absorption connected arsenic your archetypal question."

In an interrogation with Piers Morgan, which aired connected TalkTV successful November, Hassan Al-Thawadi, Secretary General of the SC, said that betwixt 400 and 500 migrant workers person died arsenic a effect of enactment done connected projects connected to the tourney -- a greater fig than Qatari officials person cited previously.

Al-Thawadi said successful the aforesaid interrogation that 3 migrant workers had died successful incidents straight connected with operation of World Cup stadiums, and 37 deaths were attributed to different reasons.

In his interrogation connected Thursday, Al Khater added: "Look, workers' decease has been a large taxable during the World Cup. Everything that has been said and everything that has been reflected astir workers' deaths has been perfectly false.

"This theme, this negativity astir the World Cup has been thing that we've been faced with. We're a spot disappointed that the journalists person been exacerbating this mendacious narrative.

"And honestly, I deliberation a batch of the journalists person to inquire themselves and bespeak connected wherefore they've been trying to bang connected astir the taxable for truthful long."

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